Re: 12.3-RC1 errors on boot and shutdown

On Sat, 2021-11-20 at 18:46 +0700, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> 20.11.2021 17:54, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > > > xargs: not found
> > > > 
> > > > This one comes from /etc/rc.d/rctl. Consequentially, rctl rules will
> > > > not be loaded.
> > > > 
> > > > The flaw was always there, but (for whatever reason) /etc/rc.d/rctl
> > > > is now run very early, *before* mountcritlocal.
> > > > And xargs lives in /usr/bin - it doesn't exist before mountcritlocal.
> > > 
> > > I've just fixed rctl part in HEAD:
> > > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=0c54fe172ad365e7e60d6249484a7579c18b7d2d
> > > 
> > > I will commit the fix to stable branches soon, but stable/12 will get it after the release as it is too late.
> > 
> > Why is it too late ? I thought that's what the RCs are for ?
> 
> Releng team announced that only critical fixes are accepted after RCs.
> This fix is not critical as it's easy to fix the script locally until official update.

wait....what?
This means we *can not* upgrade our 100+ systems upon release, because
we cannot at the same time roll out local changes to basic stuff in
/etc/rc.d ..

(my 2 cents)

/Eirik